I almost considered buying a used 12.9” silicon case and cutting the areas needed to make it work for the 2nd gen. I ordered this plastic back case which claims to work with the Smart Keyboard. I figured for $13, I can’t hurt to try it out. Will report back how it is.

I think you're thinking of "extend wireless network", which can limit the max bandwidth of the network. "Add to existing network" is just like any other device (like a phone or computer) joining a Wifi network.

So, you should just have to have the Express join as a regular client. I forget what it's called in Airport Utility, but basically it's "client mode". If it's not showing up on your network, press the tiny button with a pin or pen while it's plugged in to make it factory reset. Then you'll find the AE in setup mode. Join it, and have it join your actual network. Then it show up as a Airplayable device.

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. Yeah so Family Sharing is what you want. Think of your iCloud login as your “identity”. That’s what all personal information (browser tabs, music prefs, iMessages, etc.) are all tied to. Family Sharing means that everyone is signed into their own iCloud accounts (just like you would normally), but you just are telling Apple that these iCloud identities are in a “family”, so certain things related to iTunes purchases are shared.

When you say, "so that my mother doesn't need to use her mobile data", keep in mind that doing family sharing with Apple let's you share things like music subscriptions, apps, etc.

To share mobile data, that's a carrier thing, like AT&T or Verizon. They have their own data-sharing plans which are also often called family plans, but they aren't the same as family sharing by Apple (they do different things). It's possible you want to set up both a family plan for sharing monthly data, and also to share purchases.

So the best solution I've found is to actually install the Phillips Hue Dimmer switches (about $25 each). I just used sticky tack or framing tape to mount them on the wall next to the actual light switch. They look like wall switches and now my house can pass the "guest test" :)

FYI this feature is not iCloud Keychain. It's called Shared Web Credentials. It allows an app and a web domain to whitelist each other so that a password saved into the web domain can be accessed by the app and vice versa.

iCloud Keychain simply allows passwords to be marked sync-able so that they're available wherever iCloud Keychain is supported (e.g. not yet on tvOS)

First: There's a lot of technology in the iPad Pro to make the pencil be as responsive as possible (240Hz vs 60Hz), so when you write notes, the line is very closely following your pencil tip.

With a regular iPad, the responsiveness is much slower, so your quick handwriting will suffer, as the screen can't keep up with your movements.

Second: With an iPad Pro, the Pencil is a normal sized tip, so you can see where you're writing and can have small handwriting. With a regular iPad, you have to use a regular "stylus" which needs to be fat enough to resemble a fingertip for the screen to register the touch. Only the Pencil can currently have a normal-sized tip on the screen and register it.

Source: Me, who went from an iPad Pro to a regular iPad and can't take notes anymore using a stylus.

It sounds like the issue they have isn't with you using Google Maps instead of MapKit in your app, it's that you're not providing an option for the user to launch the native Maps app? If so, that's an easier thing to add/workaround:

Add a first-time request to the user if they want to open in Google Maps or Apple Maps.

Ctrl+Cmd+E to Edit all in scope. It'll create a dotted line around all the text being changed.

Basically it selects all the occurrences of a variable intelligently (i.e. if you have the same variable text in multiple functions throughout your file, it won't select all of them blindly; just the ones within the scope of your function/block/etc.

iOS dev here. You're talking about Safari Web Credentials, not Shared Keychain. I think that part of the reason many folks haven't adopted it is because there's an annoying (but necessary) requirement that you place a file on your server called an apple-app-site-association and (here's the annoying part) encrypt it in a very specific way.

apple-app-site-association files are used for other things too, like universal links, but that doesn't require the file to be encrypted.

Any sort of friction where the iOS developer has to tell the backend team to do something means some people aren't going to want to support it. Also, it's not clear yet how many people in Safari say "yes" to storing the password on the web, so it's hard to justify the work to maintain that file. I think it's worth doing though.

Apple not supporting GIF in the Photos app but supporting GIF in Messages has been around way before Live Photos, so imo I don't think it's an "upselling" decision.

Honestly, the GIF format is SO inefficient. It's memory-intensive to display and the files are huge for typical duration (that's why imgur et. al. have their own "GIFV" formats, to try and combat the huge size and memory by converting GIFs into looping mp4 movies).

And yet, they are used by many, many people, and has had a resurgence in recent years. So the best thing to do here is to leave feedback. We just all have to ask :)